The corpus record

κερᾰμ-εύω

kerameuo

to be a potter

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Where it lives

Euthydemus 2 · 1.61/10k
Ecclesiazusae 1 · 1.31/10k
Hippias Major 1 · 1.18/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

κερᾰμ-εύω · keram-euō — LSJ

to be a potter

to be a potter, Phryn.Com. 15, Pl. R. 467a, etc.

2 make earthenware, tinkers, make a pot of, discuss its manufacture, they had, made

c. acc., κ. κανθάρους make earthenware cups, Epig. 4; τὰ τρύβλια κακῶς κ., τὴν δὲ πόλιν εὖ καὶ καλῶς he tinkers the state, of the demagogue Cephalos, whose father was a potter, Ar. Ec. 253; κ. τὸν κεραμέα make a pot of the potter, Pl. Euthd. 301d; τὸ Νέστορος ποτήριον πολλοὶ -εύουσι, i.e. discuss its manufacture, Ath. 11.781d:—Med., ἐκεραμεύσαντο . . ποτήρια they had them made, Pherecr. 143:—Pass., χύτρα κεκεραμευμένη ὑπὸ ἀγαθοῦ κεραμέως Pl. Hp.Ma. 288d, cf. Nicostr.Com. 10.

In the wild

κεραμεύειν · kerameuein Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 192)
κεραμεύῃ · kerameuēi Plato, Euthydemus 301
κεραμεύειν · kerameuein Plato, Euthydemus 301
κεκεραμευμένη · kekerameumenē Plato, Hippias Major 288
κεραμεύειν · kerameuein Plato, Republic 4.420 (DIORISIS sentence 2140)
κεραμεύειν · kerameuein Plato, Republic 5.467 (DIORISIS sentence 3204)

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